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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Ambiance
.
Offset color lithograph, circa 1972. 245x480 mm; 9
3
/
4
x19 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered
30/50 in pencil, lower margin.
This lithograph was produced by Bearden to support the 1973 production of Ed Bullin’s
House
Party: A Soulful Happening
at the American Place Theater in New York. Bearden would go on to
create the “visual environment” for the play and Ed Bullins served as the Playwright-in-Residence
at the American Place Theatre in 1973. An unnumbered and untitled impression is illustrated in
Mary Lee Corlett’s
From Print to Process: GraphicWorks by Romare Bearden
. Corlett pl. 40, p. 73; Fine
p. 231.
[2,000/3,000]
